Let Obama Be Obama

[4est_4est_Gump]

Let Obama Be Obama
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
November 22, 2012 12:00

After his party’s devastating setback in the 2010 midterm elections, Barack Obama was reelected earlier this month by painting his Republican opponents as heartless in favoring lower taxes for the rich. They were portrayed as nativists for opposing the DREAM Act amnesty for illegal immigrants, and as callous in battling the federal takeover of health care.

Republicans countered with arguments that higher taxes on the employer class hurt the economy in general. They assumed most voters knew that amnesties are euphemisms for undermining federal law and in the past have had the effect of promoting more illegal immigration. They tried to point out that there is no such thing as free universal health care, since Obamacare will only shift responsibility from health-care practitioners and patients to inefficient government bureaucracies and hide the true costs with higher taxes.

And they utterly failed to convince the American people of any of that.

Why doesn’t the Republican-controlled House of Representatives give both voters and President Obama what they wished for?

The current battle over the budget hinges on whether to return to the Clinton-era income-tax rates, at least for those who make more than $250,000 a year. Allowing federal income rates to climb to near 40 percent on that cohort would bring in only about $80 billion in revenue a year — a drop in the bucket when set against the $1.3 trillion annual deficit that grew almost entirely from out-of-control spending since 2009.

Instead, why not agree to hike federal-income-tax rates only on the true “millionaires and billionaires,” “fat cats,” and “corporate jet owners” whom Obama has so constantly demonized? In other words, skip over the tire-store owner or dentist, and tax those, for example, who make $1 million or more in annual income. Eight out of the ten wealthiest counties in the United States voted for Obama. Corporate lawyers and the affluent in Hollywood and on Wall Street should all not mind “paying their fair share.”

Upping federal tax rates to well over 40 percent on incomes of more than $1 million a year would also offer a compromise: shielding most of the small businesspeople Republicans wish to protect while allowing Obama to tax the 1-percenters whom he believes have so far escaped paying what they owe, and then putting responsibility on the president to keep his part of the bargain in making needed cuts in spending.

Likewise, instead of hiking death taxes on small businesspeople, why not close loopholes for billion-dollar estates by taxing their gargantuan bequests to pet foundations that avoid estate taxes? Why should a Warren Buffett or Bill Gates act as if he built his own business and can solely determine how his fat-cat fortune is spent for the next century — meanwhile robbing the government of billions of dollars in lost estate taxes along with any federal say in how such fortunes are put to public use?

The president flipped in an election year on the DREAM Act. Suddenly, in 2012, Obama decided that he indeed did have the executive power to order amnesty without congressional approval for those who came illegally as children, stayed in school or joined the military, avoided arrest and thus deserved citizenship. In response, Republicans supposedly lost Latino support by insisting that federal immigration law be enforced across the board, regardless of race, class, gender, or national origin.

But why not make the president’s DREAM Act part of the envisioned grand bargain on immigration? Once it is agreed upon that we have the ability to distinguish those foreign nationals deserving of amnesty, then surely we also have the ability to determine who does not meet those agreed-upon criteria.

Why, then, cannot conservatives allow a pathway to citizenship for the play-by-the-rules millions who qualify, while regrettably enforcing an un-DREAM Act for others who just recently arrived illegally; enrolled in, and have remained on, public assistance; or have been convicted of a crime? Who could object to that fair compromise?

Finally, Obamacare will be imposed on all Americans by 2014. But so far the Obama administration has granted more than 1,200 exemptions to favored corporations and unions, covering about 4 million Americans. Shouldn’t Republicans seek to end all exemptions rather than tackle the improbable task of overturning Obamacare itself? Their motto should be: “Equality for all; special treatment for no one!”

One of the brilliant themes of the 2012 Obama campaign was forcing Republicans, on principle, to systematically oppose most of the things that the administration wanted them to oppose — thereby shielding itself from the unwelcome consequences of its own ideology while winning political points. Now, in defeat, Republicans should agree to let the chips lie where they fall: Tax only the truly rich; reward only the truly deserving illegal immigrants; and exempt no one from Obamacare.

Nothing could be fairer or more equal than that.

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The End of Sparta.


This is what I have been saying and what I voted for.

Republicans, roll over like complacent puppies, let Obama playfully rub your belly and then piddle all over the Democrat carpet of Dreams by allowing it to happen. They are stronger when you try to stop them. They need enemies to explain their failures; become their best buddies...

It is like this:

A prolific and unconventional French writer, Gide was controversial for his confessional works, his frank defense of homosexuality, and his espousal of Communism—and subsequent disavowal of it after a visit to the Soviet Union

Source - Refdesk.com

 

[mercury14]

Obamacare waivers are set to end in 13 months so you can shut your yapper about inequality.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Gift That Keeps on Giving!

Pennsylvania's Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) is slashing the hours of 400 adjunct instructors, support staff, and part-time instructors to dodge paying for Obamacare.

"It's kind of a double whammy for us because we are facing a legal requirement [under the new law] to get health care and if the college is reducing our hours, we don't have the money to pay for it," said adjunct biology professor Adam Davis.

On Tuesday, CCAC employees were notified that Obamacare defines full-time employees as those working 30 hours or more per week and that on Dec. 31 temporary part-time employees will be cut back to 25 hours. The move will save an estimated $6 million.

"While it is of course the college’s preference to provide coverage to these positions, there simply are not funds available to do so," said CCAC spokesperson David Hoovler. "Several years of cuts or largely flat funding from our government supporters have led to significant cost reductions by CCAC, leaving little room to trim the college’s budget further."

The solution, says United Steelworkers representative Jeff Cech, is that adjunct professors should unionize in an attempt to thwart schools seeking similar cost-savings efforts from avoiding Obamacare.

"They may be complying with the letter of the law, but the letter of law and the spirit of the law are two different things," said Mr. Cech. "If they are doing it at CCAC, it can't be long before they do it other places."

Under the new CCAC policy, adjunct professors will only be allowed to teach 10 credit hours a semester. Adjuncts are paid $730 per credit hour.

"We all know we are expendable," said Mr. Davis, "and there are plenty of people out there in this economy who would be willing to have our jobs."

Tee hee

Tee hee

You have to wonder how many of these "academics" are white Obama Liberals...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Let Obama Be Obama
Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
November 22, 2012 12:00


Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of The End of Sparta.


This is what I have been saying and what I voted for.

Republicans, roll over like complacent puppies, let Obama playfully rub your belly and then piddle all over the Democrat carpet of Dreams by allowing it to happen. They are stronger when you try to stop them. They need enemies to explain their failures; become their best buddies...

It is like this:


Source - Refdesk.com

Obama won cuz Karl Rove and the Born To Be Mild RINO Choir picked the worst chump to oppose Bronco Bama with.

 

[miles]

The Gift That Keeps on Giving!



Tee hee

Tee hee

You have to wonder how many of these "academics" are white Obama Liberals...

They gladly sacrificed their careers for The Cause.

 

[renard_ruse]

You have to wonder how many of these "academics" are white Obama Liberals...

Some of the rich white femanist liberal career women are now whining about the coming tax hikes. "Why, we voted for more abortion, not having Obama take more of our money." Lol, lol, lol, lol, lol, and lol.

 

[DooleyDarter]

Obamacare waivers are set to end in 13 months so you can shut your yapper about inequality.

If you believe that the Unions won't keep their waivers, I have a couple of bridges for sale, at a pretty good price.

 

[Ishmael]

The Gift That Keeps on Giving!



Tee hee

Tee hee

You have to wonder how many of these "academics" are white Obama Liberals...

Welcome to the 56 hour work week. Millions of people holding down 2 part-time jobs so as to pay for the health care they voted for. It's appears to be the new paradigm of the future for those in unskilled and semi-skilled positions. Sometimes getting what you asked for is the worst thing that can happen.

Ishmael

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Welcome to the 56 hour work week. Millions of people holding down 2 part-time jobs so as to pay for the health care they voted for. It's appears to be the new paradigm of the future for those in unskilled and semi-skilled positions. Sometimes getting what you asked for is the worst thing that can happen.

Ishmael

There should be a lot of part time doctor jobs available.

 

[Busybody]

Obamacare waivers are set to end in 13 months so you can shut your yapper about inequality.

everyone on the internet plays a fictional role

of all the roles YOU could have chosen, why did you choose teh role of DUMMY MORON?

 

[Ishmael]

There should be a lot of part time doctor jobs available.

Yes, and most will go unfilled. More than a few Med school students have decided to drop out, not because of academic reasons but making a conscious career change seeing no percentage in devoting so much time and money (debt) in pursuit of a career that is going to be throttled by the government. Add to that the great number of physicians that are leaving the profession by retirement and early retirement and it's not hard to see that a care provider crisis is heading towards us at an alarming rate.

If nothing else the physician class understands that costs cannot be controlled without controlling overhead. Fixed overhead, such as facilities, etc. can only be controlled within a narrow window of options, wages, on the other hand, is an area that has great latitude wrt to control. It is not out of the question to envision the physician of the future as a mere wage slave whose income is subject to government control and regulation. The same for the rest of the medical professionals. As an example an internist in the UK system earns approx. $57,000 US/yr (median).

Medical school graduates exit with an avg. debt of $200,000 + dollars. They will have to endure a year of internship (residency) at shit pay before they actually start making any money. Assuming they are very frugal, at the UK compensation rate they can expect to be paying down that loan for 12 years. So the up and coming doctor wannabe is facing 7-10 years of college, 1 year of residency, a huge financial debt, all so they can make a salary equivalent to the avg. auto assembly line worker. And that's why so many are saying, "Why bother?"

Ishmael

 

[Busybody]

Here is THE problem

Obamacare is a JOB crusher and a deficit exploder and medical technology inhibitor.....it will also lead to LESS, not more health care......and yes, even to DEATH PANELS


It is OBVIOUS


The DUMZ and REPOZ know it, BUT, the DUMZ can never acknowledge it nor back down from it, nor fix it.......It will be up to the REPOZ to do "something". They will get help (under the table, help) from some DUMZ.......

Then every election, teh DUMZ will bash teh REPOZ for

Not giving HEALTH INSURANCE for EVERYONE

For cutting kids from healthcare,

Etc etc

There are aspects of the bill that appeal to the DIM WITTED and the DUMZ will run on that forever......

REPOZ lose

COUNTRY and teh people lose MORE

 

[TheOlderGuy]

Yes, and most will go unfilled. More than a few Med school students have decided to drop out, not because of academic reasons but making a conscious career change seeing no percentage in devoting so much time and money (debt) in pursuit of a career that is going to be throttled by the government. Add to that the great number of physicians that are leaving the profession by retirement and early retirement and it's not hard to see that a care provider crisis is heading towards us at an alarming rate.

If nothing else the physician class understands that costs cannot be controlled without controlling overhead. Fixed overhead, such as facilities, etc. can only be controlled within a narrow window of options, wages, on the other hand, is an area that has great latitude wrt to control. It is not out of the question to envision the physician of the future as a mere wage slave whose income is subject to government control and regulation. The same for the rest of the medical professionals. As an example an internist in the UK system earns approx. $57,000 US/yr (median).

Medical school graduates exit with an avg. debt of $200,000 + dollars. They will have to endure a year of internship (residency) at shit pay before they actually start making any money. Assuming they are very frugal, at the UK compensation rate they can expect to be paying down that loan for 12 years. So the up and coming doctor wannabe is facing 7-10 years of college, 1 year of residency, a huge financial debt, all so they can make a salary equivalent to the avg. auto assembly line worker. And that's why so many are saying, "Why bother?"

Ishmael

Yes--pay no attention to that Doctor behind the curtain who orders batteries of unnecessary tests in order to pad his income. Nor to Big Pharma who scare you into taking expensive drugs that mask your symptoms and make you vulnerable to a laundry list of other ailments. Nor to the insurance companies whose ONLY motive is profit. There surely is no way to control costs other than drawing and quartering new doctors fresh out of med school. Really--they wouldn't lie.

not Ishmael

 

[koalabear]

Obamacare waivers are set to end in 13 months so you can shut your yapper about inequality.

Liar and a MORON.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Yes, and most will go unfilled. More than a few Med school students have decided to drop out, not because of academic reasons but making a conscious career change seeing no percentage in devoting so much time and money (debt) in pursuit of a career that is going to be throttled by the government. Add to that the great number of physicians that are leaving the profession by retirement and early retirement and it's not hard to see that a care provider crisis is heading towards us at an alarming rate.

If nothing else the physician class understands that costs cannot be controlled without controlling overhead. Fixed overhead, such as facilities, etc. can only be controlled within a narrow window of options, wages, on the other hand, is an area that has great latitude wrt to control. It is not out of the question to envision the physician of the future as a mere wage slave whose income is subject to government control and regulation. The same for the rest of the medical professionals. As an example an internist in the UK system earns approx. $57,000 US/yr (median).

Medical school graduates exit with an avg. debt of $200,000 + dollars. They will have to endure a year of internship (residency) at shit pay before they actually start making any money. Assuming they are very frugal, at the UK compensation rate they can expect to be paying down that loan for 12 years. So the up and coming doctor wannabe is facing 7-10 years of college, 1 year of residency, a huge financial debt, all so they can make a salary equivalent to the avg. auto assembly line worker. And that's why so many are saying, "Why bother?"

Ishmael

Bullshit, the number of medical school graduates has remained steady, 15,000 to 17,000 per year for the past decade. In fact, it's slowly increased year over year since 2002.

But you don't have to believe me. You can look here.

 

[Busybody]

Yes--pay no attention to that Doctor behind the curtain who orders batteries of unnecessary tests in order to pad his income. Nor to Big Pharma who scare you into taking expensive drugs that mask your symptoms and make you vulnerable to a laundry list of other ailments. Nor to the insurance companies whose ONLY motive is profit. There surely is no way to control costs other than drawing and quartering new doctors fresh out of med school. Really--they wouldn't lie.

not Ishmael

what is the alernative to the above?

tell me

its ok

I'll wait

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Yes--pay no attention to that Doctor behind the curtain who orders batteries of unnecessary tests in order to pad his income. Nor to Big Pharma who scare you into taking expensive drugs that mask your symptoms and make you vulnerable to a laundry list of other ailments. Nor to the insurance companies whose ONLY motive is profit. There surely is no way to control costs other than drawing and quartering new doctors fresh out of med school. Really--they wouldn't lie.

not Ishmael

America doesnt prioritize its spending; the money goes where politicians are certain to get some of it back in the form of payoffs. Rational minds assess needs and rank them. ASnd in a rational America medical care and education and housing would fall higher up the list than the Chevy Volt or dubious green schemes.

 

[garbage can]

Yes--pay no attention to that Doctor behind the curtain who orders batteries of unnecessary tests in order to pad his income. Nor to Big Pharma who scare you into taking expensive drugs that mask your symptoms and make you vulnerable to a laundry list of other ailments. Nor to the insurance companies whose ONLY motive is profit. There surely is no way to control costs other than drawing and quartering new doctors fresh out of med school. Really--they wouldn't lie.

not Ishmael

It prolly has nothing to do with the doctors covering their ass against malpractice lawsuits.

 

[TheOlderGuy]

It prolly has nothing to do with the doctors covering their ass against malpractice lawsuits.

Lawyers are seldom blameless when it comes to issues of money

 

[eyer]

Why do even Republican Party-leaning sentimentalists insist on continuing to pontificate battle philosophy that's - as the election proved - futile?

All true conservative hearts know that government as we have today is corrupted beyond redemption...

...and that a majority of Americans - whose numbers still grow - will effortlessly choose the benefits of that corruption over any effort(s) to stand steadfastly upon any principles required to eradicate that corruption.

Patriots understood their only option of delivering themselves and their country from the government corruption of their day was to divorce themselves completely from that government and begin anew independently. That true solution is only achievable if those pontificating it are willing to sacrifice everything they've already obtained and still enjoy under government allowance and, instead, literally pledge their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause they espouse...

...anything less is simply a lot of hollow, lemming belly-aching while continuing to contribute to the corruption itself.

It will not take a majority to divest this great nation of the corruptness that is ruining it...

...all it takes is enough honorable individuals to literally divorce themselves by saying No, no more, and then actually living their lives, day-after-day-after-day, independently.

But, that is most obviously a principled choice too costly for even Republican Party-leaning sentimentalists too make, so the lemming belly aching simply continues...

...and corrupt government continues to grow.

 

[Busybody]

what is the alernative to the above?

tell me

its ok

I'll wait

 

[koalabear]

A number of factors are contributing to the potential doctor shortage, including an expected increase in the demand for healthcare as more people become insured and the impending retirement of a large crop of doctors who aren't being replaced fast enough.

The AAMC also recommended that the federal government lift the cap on the number of residency slots it funds, a cap imposed by the 1997 Balanced Budget Act. All physicians are required to complete several years of post-graduate clinical residency, also known as graduate medical education, before they can practice independently. If the number of residency slots doesn't increase along with medical school enrollment, hospitals will be unable to train medical students as fast as they can graduate and the doctor shortage will remain.

http://education-portal.com/articles/Medical_Schools_Growing_to_Meet_Demand.html

 

[Busybody]

Lawyers are seldom blameless when it comes to issues of money

so I asked you what the alternative is

and you CANT ANSWER?


its easy to SHOT EVERYWHERE, isnt it

more difficult to ANSWER AND GIVE AN ALTERNATIVE

 

[Busybody]

Obama’s Small Business Chief Has Not Heard One Case of Obamacare Hurting Small Business


Karen Mills, President Obama’s Small Business Administration chief, claimed this morning on MSNBC that she has not heard one case of Obamacare hurting small business:

“You know, I travel all around the country, every week I go to a different part of the country. I’m with small businesses. And I’m not hearing that,” Mills said in response to a question about how she would explain employers cutting work hours for employees because of Obamacare regulations.

“You’ve never heard that?” host Joe Scarborough responded. “You need to talk to your staff and tell them to get you out of the bubble, because we are hearing that all the time.”

Mills continue, “We are out there every single day–”

And then Scarborough, still surprised, interrupted to ask again, “Have you never heard that before?”

 

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